Telephone attachment.



J. E. WILLIAMSON.

TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 8. 1911.

1,274,128. Patented July 30,191&

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOEL EWING WILLIAMSON, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

TELEPHONE ATTACHMENT. 5

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OEL EWING WILLIAM- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evansville, county of Vanderburg, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to telephone attachments.

My object is to provide an attachment for a subscribers telephone desk set which will prevent the telephone cord from wrapping around the instrument or becoming tangled.

The invention contemplates the provision of an improved joint or turn-table between the base and the standard of the instrument, one embodiment of which is set forth hereinafter and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a subscribers telephone to which the invention has been applied, certain parts being-broken away and others in section; and

Fig. 2 is a detail view of the attachment.

The base of a subscribers' telephone appears at l, the standard at 2, and the cord at 3. a

In the ordinary subscribers instrument the standard and base are rigidly connected together; consequently the cord 3 becomes tangled and is frequently involuntarily wrapped around the standard by'the user.

To prevent the tangling and twisting of the cord 3, I mount the standard 2 in a rotatable manner on the base 1. An attachment whichmay be employed for-the foregoing purpose is shown in Fig. 2, compris-,

1ng acollar 4, flange 5, hub 6, and shank 7. The collar receives the lower end of the standard 2 and is secured thereto by screws 7 8. The basal has an. opening 9 slightly larger than the hub 6 in which thesaid hub is rotatably received. The flange Y 5 rests Copies of this patient may be ebtained tor' five cents each, by addressing Washington, D. C.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

upon the base 1 and supports the standard 2.

A ball cage or race 10 fits around the hub 6 of the cagelO engages the base 1, Aspring' 12 surrounds the shank 7 and is-held'. against the bottom of cage 10 by a cotter 13. t Y

The foregoing attachment mounts the Patented July 3 0, 1918. Application filed October 8,1917. Serial No. 195,375. r r

standard 2 so that it will revolve on the balls ll; consequently it turns-in relation tothe base at the slightest touch and prevents tangling, twisting or wrapping of the cord 3.

.Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersrPatent, is

1. A subscribers telephonecomprising' a base and standard which are relatively rotatable, and a cordwholly carried by the standard and entering the side thereof.

2. A subscribers telephone comprising a base and. standard which is rotatable in relation to the base, and a cord for the instrument which enters, and is carried the standard.

it 3. A subscribers telephone comprisin a base, a standard, an anti-friction joint lietween the two, rotatable, standard.

4:. A subscribers telephone comprising a base, a standard, and a standard-supporting, coupling between thetwo which is secured to the standard and is rotatable in relation to thebase. i 5. A subscribers telephone comprisinga whereby they are relatively and a cord wholly carried by the solelyby,

base, a standard, and a coupling between the V. two which has a flange restingon the base,

a hub rotatable in the base, a shank, aball cageor race, balls in said cage, and a spring In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my" interposed between the cage and shank;

signature.

JOELnw NGr WiLLI the Commissioner of Patent 7? 

